Collegium Intermarium ( pl, Uczelnia Collegium Intermarium ) is a university located in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

. The university was founded in 2021 and opened with an inauguration conference on 28 May. The university was inaugurated by

Education for Values Foundation Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...

and is also linked to

Ordo Iuris Ordo Iuris (full official name: Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture; pl, Fundacja Instytut na rzecz Kultury Prawnej Ordo Iuris) is an ultra-conservative Polish Catholic legal organization and think tank. It aims to "research the legal cultur ...

, a conservative legal Polish think tank known for its protection of traditional values and Christian ethics.

History

Collegium Intermarium is the first university registered in Poland after the major . The name of the university refers to the countries of the

Intermarium Intermarium ( pl, Międzymorze, ) was a post-World War I geopolitical plan conceived by Józef Piłsudski to unite former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lands within a single polity. The plan went through several iterations, some of which antic ...

region, which was a geopolitical project conceived by politicians in successor states of the former

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ...

. The name of the university reflects the intention to support and cooperate with the community of the Intermarium region. The project is intended to promote conservative causes in Europe based on Roman legal culture, Greek philosophy and Christian ethics. The university offers accredited degrees at the master's level in law, with the curriculum to include related subjects like the history of law and philosophy. In addition, several postgraduate degree courses are launched in the fall of 2021, including Ethics degree for school teachers; Classical Europe: Politics, Culture and Art of Debate; NGO Management and Forensic Science. It plans to offer a PhD program in four to five years. The university says it will be privately funded at first but plans to seek public funding in the future.

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